Update: Cloud.TV has clarified that it will unlock the Prime features for anyone who bought the old Prime unlocker, but does not have it installed. You just need to get in touch to make that happen. That sounds reasonable.

Update 3: Google has asked Dayframe to pull Chromecast support for the time being until the official Play services SDK is out. Apparently that should be soon. v2.0.2 is out sans Chromecast support.

Photo frames are one of the lamest gifts you can buy, but an app that turns your tablet into a photo frame? That's surprisingly cool. Dayframe has a ton of features and photostreams, but now it has one more thing – Chromecast support. Version 2.0 is live in Google Play, and it really shakes things up. It's not all good news, though.

Here's the changelog for v2.0. It's almost like a new app.

interactive Chromecast player

UI overhaul

new library organization

view and play individual photostreams

better album playlisting

library shortcuts in left menu

playlists in the right menu

favorite streams

PRIME now IAP

Chromecast shows animated gifs!

The Chromecast support is obviously the headlining feature here. Just connect and you can beam the super-pretty photostream over to your TV. You have to upgrade to Prime ($2.99) for Chromecast support (and a few other things). The app itself now has a light UI with an easier to use library view as well. Remember, for the new Chromecast apps to work, you need to have the most recent version of Google Play Services.

There is one troubling bullet point in that changelog – "PRIME now IAP." The Dayframe Prime app has been removed from Play, so you can't re-download it. The app will continue to work for anyone who bought it, but it probably won't be available again. Most of the features unlocked with the $2.99 IAP in the new app are the same as the old Prime version. Dayframe is a cool app, but let's be honest – this is not a very nice thing to do to customers.

Yup - they'll get all updates. IAP is just a different way to purchase.

If you want to install on a different device that doesn't have the Prime apk just shoot us and email and we'll whitelist you: [email protected]

Bill G

The thing is, in about 3 months from now there will be a lot of apps that have Chromecast functionality that your app charges $2.99 for. For someone that would only use your app for the Chromecast ability... it's not worth it.

RyanWhitwam

That's not really fair. Plenty of apps have pro versions with additional features. If you want good apps, developers need to be able to make money. $2.99 is reasonable for all the stuff Dayframe includes.

Tim242

Would you work for free?

Bender Bending Rodriguez

Pathetic

Milind Shah

Woah that was an extremely bad move from the devs. they should atleast give the people who bought the prime version access to all the features :/

Jair Andres Moreno

Who says that prime members can't access all features?. Just install the prime add on via Play Store and you are fine.

I think there's a misunderstanding. If bought prime already you should still have prime as long as you have the unlocker. If that's not working for some reason shoot us an email and we'll fix it: [email protected]

We just republished the APK for prime so you can use that. Alternatively you can just email us and we'll whitelist you: [email protected]

andy_o

I got a couple of q's about app authentication. If the premium unlock of an app is an IAP, is it "worse" in the sense that the premium version is unlocked on the developer's side, as opposed to a separate premium version in the Play Store which you only need to download from Google?

Also, anyone knows how can one be sure about typing your Google password to sign in to Google (Drive, Cloud Print, etc.) from a 3rd party app that doesn't support oauth? For instance, Camscanner opens a browser popup asking for the Google password. App-specific passwords don't even work here. As far as I know apps still do this commonly and did it a lot before oauth, was there a way to know to trust these prompts?

Kyle Riedemann

It's much worse when many already paid for the premium version, and have to pay again to get the same features back of they want to get updates.

Thank you for the clarification. I have updated my Google Play review.

Bill Anderson

Well that sucks. And, their UI really infuriates me. Sometimes you can click the icon in the Action Bar to go back, sometimes you can't. And now there is a "hamburger" menu on the right side? that's not standard...

We removed the Prime APK as to not confuse people. If any folks that already bought the app and want to use it on another device we're happy to honor that. If they shoot us an email at [email protected] we can whitelist all of their devices from our side.

Eddie Hooper

If every app charges 3 or 4 bucks to use the Chromecast, does that not defeat the purpose of the Chromecast being so cheap?

Leif Sikorski

It's not just for the chromecast, there are more features you get in the premium version. The Chromecast feature is just a good thing to have as a premium feature I guess. Every app which gets further development and support, deserves to earn some money - so there's nothing wrong with it.

Phil

They did what they said they would! A simple email to them and they fixed it. I paid for the old version, got a new device, went to install, and it wasn't there! I emailed them, they "whitelisted" me. Problem solved, New app unlocked for me. I know it's a bit of a pain that maybe could have been avoided, but good on them to honor past purchases. They really didn't have to...

Chad

Dayframe needs Box integration. That's the only thing keeping me away, most of my photos are in Box.

We really confused some early users by saying Chromecast was available too soon. Anyone who bought the In App Purchase for Prime last Thursday (02/06) will be refunded and whitelisted. Simply visit this page and let us know your account: cloud.tv/i/df-prime-fix